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Example sentences for "face like"

  • Pere Rossiter-Browne is a little dapper man, with a face like a squirrel.

  • When the little old woman with a face like a nut was alive she could see the whole tack at one sweep of the eye from the rowan at the door, on the left up to the plateau where five burns were born, on the right to the peak of Drimfern.

  • No shell in any of their foreign battles more astounded the veterans he was facing with wide nostril and a face like chalk.

  • She had a face like an old peasant woman, with a curious snub nose and irregular whiskers that betrayed recklessly the advance of age.

  • He saw the bright brown eyes and felt the hair all over his face like a bath of perfume.

  • I would have given most of the world to ask if she loved Dudley, but I didn't dare: I suppose a girl could love a man with a face like an egg, if she owed him enough.

  • Fred walked with Anna, she strange and winsome, he with a face like wood, stiff, unyielding.

  • Why have you a face like an underwriter in a tempest?

  • I don't think I ever saw a face like Betty's.

  • Oh, Betty, with a face like yours--nothing!

  • The women laid mats in a great half circle, and each savage took his seat with perfect breeding; that is, in absolute silence and with a face like a stone.

  • As for me, I set my face like a flint, and looked past the man who might have saved me that last speech of the Governor's as if he had never been.

  • One or two glanced at me, but I sat with a face like stone, and the Governor, rising, broke up the council.

  • With a face like a peony, Edith said, earnestly, "I am sure the real angels throng your home.

  • Then it seems to me that I have the right to absolve you from the promise," she continued in a still lower tone, and a face like a damask-rose in moonlight.

  • He has very black eyebrows, and a face like a corpse, and a large gold ring on the little finger of his right hand.

  • He had a face like a corpse, and very thin lips.

  • But there was money behind him and a villain that she described to us--black eyebrows, a face like a corpse, and dressed in a suit of tweed one color.

  • The big stranger heard all, and strode through the people with a face like a thunder-cloud.

  • Of him it had been fitly said that he had a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan.

  • George, why don't you join the Army and get a face like that?

  • So you see takin' it all round, it's quite a blessin' to have a face like mine.

  • They'll blast anything that has four arms and a face like a lizard.

  • It was easy to forget that Kankad had four arms and a rubbery, quartz-speckled skin, and a face like a lizard's.

  • Now, you wouldn't think women would fancy a man with a face like mine, would you?

  • We've got a new halberdier now, a bow-legged guy with a face like a sheep.

  • A face like a dark mist--and een like hell.

  • But for all his swagger he must have had a face like death, for there was a cry among the idlers.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "face like" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    body temperature; but perhaps; certain number; ceteris paribus; economically active; face down; face downward; face fell; face grew; face like; face looked; face page; face toward the ground; face was; faced girl; faced round; faced tumbler; faced woman; first view; half high; her hat; means always; never remember; shall first; such occasions; various ways